Having recently visited Goulbourn and attained a minor in standover and honors in keeping things dark can I say, your prison has already attained a ***** rating.

The most curious addition, and somewhat contentious issue is a painted line.

When I went to school not so long ago, the hippies were mucking about with things like ‘curriculum’ and ‘Punishment’, we got the yellow dot.

Yes, if you got into trouble, you had to stand on the yellow dot all recess. Horrible.

If you are a dog (informant, child abuser yucky crime like that) you go to protection, or strict protection, seperated by solid walls, the cheapskates have decided protection only needs a line painted on the ground, the bet is, we get the death penalty in our new gaol.

It will be interesting.

Before any rednecks want to start yarning about Goulbourn, I suggest you go and live through it. It is like being a cow in an Abattoir, can I say, the guards are very nice though 🙂
Hi and a big cheerio to all the nice guards out there !!!

And you don’t know putrid till you’ve done a week in E yard BRC, and if you are locked up, I met some old men and nice blokes inside, you want someone to look after your family, cause they do it harder.

Think about that, especially if you were thinking of voting liberal, and your right to protest.

Prison artwork? – typical. Not only is it the most luxurious jail in the country, we also pay for prison art.

not picking just on you, jorge, but several other comments seem also to have missed the first comment – does no one read any more?: Re the prison art – a source close to the action advises it was donated

that aside, i can’t see what the fuss is over having art in a ‘correction facility’ – isn’t the point to rehabilitate? that won’t be done in a sad grey cube. our justice system needs all the help it can get to reduce the appalling recidivism rates and creative environments is a logical approach.

and morgan also notes, astutely, the correct term should be ‘gaol’ – not ‘jail’, which we don’t have in australia.

See, if we would just recruit our politicians out of jails.. We could stop outsourcing to Dave and Hank’s Cut Price Prisons Incorporated, and probably find we have some slightly more honest people running the country. It’s win-win!
P.S. They are called jails; I think some of you folk have been watching too much American TV.

Prison is a british term eg. Wormwood Scrubs Prison, or in Australia HM Pentrige Prison, Americans call them Penitenitarys. Jail is also an American spelling of Gaol.

The artwork at the Alexander Maconochie Centre is for visitors centre. It’s tough being the family of an incarcerated person. Why shouldn’t the visits be in a pleasant environment. Nobody would think of complaining about artwork at the High Court. Governments can support artists by giving them money or by buying their art.

Maybe I should sell artwork to the govt. With $100,000 the going rate, I’d only have to do one artwork a year!

The artwork at the Alexander Maconochie Centre is for visitors centre. It’s tough being the family of an incarcerated person. Why shouldn’t the visits be in a pleasant environment. Nobody would think of complaining about artwork at the High Court. Governments can support artists by giving them money or by buying their art.

See, if we would just recruit our politicians out of jails.. We could stop outsourcing to Dave and Hank’s Cut Price Prisons Incorporated, and probably find we have some slightly more honest people running the country. It’s win-win!
P.S. They are called jails; I think some of you folk have been watching too much American TV.

Artwork in a prison?! How outrageous. Next you’ll be saying the cells have windows and they feed them something apart from gruel. I say we bulldoze the prison and just keep sending our crooks to the Goulbourn Criminal University. We live in a skills based economy after all.

Re the prison art – a source close to the action advises it was donated, which is fortunate as the prison has had its budget slashed rather – particularly landscaping (which would have been nice to screen it off from the highway a bit) and at least one whole prison building. And they keep changing the date for opening.